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https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/pywikibot/core/+/1121771?usp=email )

Change subject: [IMPR] no longer pass continue= as with api query in 
QueryGenerator
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[IMPR] no longer pass continue= as with api query in QueryGenerator

- the 'continue' parameter can be omitted in mw >= 1.26
- update documentation for APIGenerator and CachedRequest

Bug: T343204
Change-Id: Iace6f15ab63c3f0b753483ca9cd1230a9bbc9b5c
---
M pywikibot/data/api/_generators.py
M pywikibot/data/api/_requests.py
M tests/site_generators_tests.py
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Approvals:
  Xqt: Verified; Looks good to me, approved




diff --git a/pywikibot/data/api/_generators.py 
b/pywikibot/data/api/_generators.py
index 776dbeb..2e89f36 100644
--- a/pywikibot/data/api/_generators.py
+++ b/pywikibot/data/api/_generators.py
@@ -103,6 +103,12 @@
         :param continue_name: Name of the continue API parameter.
         :param limit_name: Name of the limit API parameter.
         :param data_name: Name of the data in API response.
+        :keyword dict parameters: All parameters passed to request class
+            usally :class:`api.Request<data.api.Request>` or
+            :class:`api.CachedRequest<data.api.CachedRequest>`. See these
+            classes for further parameter descriptions. The *parameters*
+            keys can also given here as keyword parameters but this is
+            not recommended.
         """
         kwargs = self._clean_kwargs(kwargs, action=action)

@@ -243,8 +249,6 @@

         parameters['indexpageids'] = True  # always ask for list of pageids
         self.continue_name = 'continue'
-        # Explicitly enable the simplified continuation
-        parameters['continue'] = True
         self.request = self.request_class(**kwargs)
 
         self.site._paraminfo.fetch('query+' + mod for mod in self.modules)
@@ -494,8 +498,8 @@
         .. versionchanged:: 8.4
            return *None* instead of *False*.
         """
-        for key, value in self.data['continue'].items():
-            # query-continue can return ints (continue too?)
+        for key, value in self.data[self.continue_name].items():
+            # old query-continue could return ints, continue too?
             if isinstance(value, int):
                 value = str(value)
             self.request[key] = value
diff --git a/pywikibot/data/api/_requests.py b/pywikibot/data/api/_requests.py
index 5a0bc9b..b1d5737 100644
--- a/pywikibot/data/api/_requests.py
+++ b/pywikibot/data/api/_requests.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """Objects representing API requests."""
 #
-# (C) Pywikibot team, 2007-2024
+# (C) Pywikibot team, 2007-2025
 #
 # Distributed under the terms of the MIT license.
 #
@@ -146,7 +146,8 @@
                  max_retries: int | None = None,
                  retry_wait: int | None = None,
                  use_get: bool | None = None,
-                 parameters=_PARAM_DEFAULT, **kwargs) -> None:
+                 parameters=_PARAM_DEFAULT,
+                 **kwargs) -> None:
         """Create a new Request instance with the given parameters.

         The parameters for the request can be defined via either the
@@ -1163,7 +1164,10 @@
     def __init__(self, expiry, *args, **kwargs) -> None:
         """Initialize a CachedRequest object.

-        :param expiry: either a number of days or a datetime.timedelta object
+        :param expiry: either a number of days or a datetime.timedelta
+            object
+        :param args: Refer :class:`Request` for positional arguments.
+        :param args: Refer :class:`Request` for keyword arguments.
         """
         assert expiry is not None
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
diff --git a/tests/site_generators_tests.py b/tests/site_generators_tests.py
index 4100026..c16c219 100755
--- a/tests/site_generators_tests.py
+++ b/tests/site_generators_tests.py
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@

 global_expected_params = {
     'action': ['query'],
-    'continue': [True],
     'iilimit': ['max'],
     'iiprop': list(pywikibot.site._IIPROP),
     'indexpageids': [True],

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